Security tightened after two dead and 54 injured in blast

DPA/Manila Security was stepped up in the southern Philippines yesterday after a suspected car bomb killed two people and wounded 54, authorities said.The blast occurred Friday outside a bus terminal and a karaoke bar in Zamboanga City, 875 kilometres south of Manila.Chief Superintendent Agrimero Cruz Junior, a regional police director, said he had ordered more random checkpoints and deployed more officers on patrol.Zamboanga City Mayor Maria Isabelle Climaco said she suspects that the Al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf rebel group was behind the attack. She said the city jail has 52 high-risk inmates, mostly Abu Sayyaf militants, among 1,500 prisoners.